Subject: Re: Twin Peaks - Season Finale - Everybody dies and we all go home.
From: boyajian@ruby.dec.com (Cisco's Buddy)
Date: 1990-05-24, 22:20
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv,alt.tv.twin-peaks

In article <13623@venera.UUCP>, arens@ISI.EDU (Yigal Arens) writes...

} I'm not so sure.  For their inquiry into Laura Palmer's case, it is
} certainly important to know if Leo is alive or dead.  However, from
} their point of view as law officers the fact that Leo was *shot* (as
} opposed to died in a car accident or from a heart attack) is very
} significant.  It means someone did the shooting, and it means more
} investigations.  So it would make reasonable sense for a Andy to
} choose to emphasize the deliberate nature of the death, as opposed to
} the outcome alone.

I might agree with you if what Andy said was "Leo's dead," but "Leo's
been killed," would imply your "deliberate nature of the death". Of
course, we're talking about the Twin Peaks version of Barney Fife here
(though Andy isn't quite *that* bad), so it's not clear that he'd be
that careful in his phraseology. Another thing to consider is that Leo
might not be dead at that particular moment, but he still could end up
DOA.

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